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possible truth than the entire figures, treading the clouds with naked feet, of Perugino¹ and his successors.²

¹ [As in the “Crucifixion” in the Gallery of Perugia; or (in other subjects) in Nos. 288, 1075, and 1441 in the National Gallery.]

² [The Magdalen is seen at the foot of the cross, wiping the feet of Christ with her hair. Around the cross are angels, some of whom have bowls in which they are catching the blood that flows from the Saviour’s hands and side, while another bares his breast in agony. In the group to the right is a soldier with the rod and sponge, his head somewhat hidden by the uplifted arm of the figure with a nimbus-who is, perhaps, the centurion-who points to the cross, above which is the usual tablet with the words, “Hic est Jesus Nazarenus rex Judæorum.”-ED. 1899. The words are discernible in the Arundel Society’s woodcut.]

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